محاكاة التوزيع الحراري المستقر في أنود خلية مصهر الألومنيوم

Abstract

Temperature distribution in the anode of aluminum smelter in its steady state has studied using  a computer simulation method , in which the temperature at each grid point , whether they are at the surface of the anode or deeper inside were calculated by our local computer simulation  code .

Heat equation has been used to find the temperature at each grid point in three dimensions along with the boundary conditions of the problem results in a set  of differential equations which can be transformed into finite difference from, In this case the set of equations can be considered as a set of simultaneous linear algebraic equations that can solved numerically by the well know successive over relaxation  method (SOR).

A local computer simulation code has been developed to find the temperature at each grid point inside the anode for three dimensions.

The obtained results are in a very good agreement with the well know international code called COMSOL^® Multiphysics